Double Trouble

Double Trouble is a song from the English version of the Pokémon anime. Rachael Lillis, Eric Stuart, Maddie Blaustein, and Ted Lewis take the lead vocals in the roles of Jessie, James, Meowth, and Giovanni respectively. The song was used in the Pikachu's Jukebox segment in Season 1 and Season 2. Along with many other songs from the segment, it was featured on the Pokémon 2.B.A. Master CD and the Pokémon X CD. It is also used as Team Rocket's theme in Pokémon Puzzle League. A slightly different version debuted in Pokémon Live!.

Episodes

• Electric Shock Showdown (August 1999 rerun)
• The Purr-fect Hero (Pokémon TV)
• The Battle of The Badge (Pokémon TV)
• The Pi-Kahuna
• Bad to the Bone
• Friend and Foe Alike
• The Lost Lapras!
• Shell Shock!
• A Shipful of Shivers
• Get Along, Little Pokémon
• Pokémon Food Fight
• Viva Las Lapras

Characters

Humans

• Ash
• Misty
• Brock
• Jessie
• James
• Giovanni
• Butch
• Cassidy

Pokémon

• Pikachu (Ash's)
• Meowth (Team Rocket)
• Pidgeotto (Ash's)
• Charizard (Ash's)
• Onix (Brock's)
• Arbok (Jessie's)
• Koffing (James's)
• Pikachu (Victor's; Puka)

Lyrics

Original version

Giovanni:
This is the boss and I'm sick of waiting!
I want Pikachu! And this time don't screw it up!

Prepare for trouble,
Make it double,
Prepare for trouble,
Make it double.
James: We'll be the richest rogues of all time.
Jessie: Creators of a grand design.
James: I'll be the king.
Jessie: I'll be the queen.
Meowth: I'll be the joker... of crime.

Prepare for trouble
Make it double
Jessie: Prepare for trouble.
James: Make it double.
Jessie: To protect the world from devastation!
James: To unite all peoples within our nation!
Jessie: To denounce the evils of truth and love!
James: To extend our reach to the stars above!
Jessie: Jessie!
James: James!
Jessie: Team Rocket, blast off at the speed of light!
James: Surrender now, or prepare to fight!
Meowth: That's right!

Chorus:
Team Rocket's rockin,
Talkin' trouble, walkin' trouble,
Double trouble, big trouble's gonna follow you,

Team Rocket's rockin,
Talkin' trouble, walkin' trouble,
Double trouble, big trouble's gonna follow you,
Team Rocket: We're gonna capture Pikachu.

Prepare for trouble,
Make it double,
Jessie: Prepare for trouble
Prepare for trouble,
James: Make it double
Make it double,
Chorus & James:
We're Team Rocket and we fight for what's wrong
For mayhem and madness and rare Pokémon.
Jessie: I'm so gorgeous
James: I'm always the man
Giovanni: You're just the players in my master plan

Chorus:
Team Rocket's rockin
Talkin' trouble, walkin' trouble
Double trouble, big trouble's gonna follow you

Team Rocket's rockin
Talkin' trouble, walkin' trouble
Double trouble, big trouble's gonna follow you
Team Rocket: We're gonna capture Pikachu

We're always gonna try it
No one can deny it
We can cause a riot in Sunday School
James: Ooh a riot!
We'll have you believing
Truth can be deceiving
Team Rocket: "Do unto others" is our Golden Rule

Jessie: This is our most ingenious plan ever, if I do say so myself.
James: Even we couldn't screw this one up Jessie.
Meowth: Would you two stop yappin', here they come!
Prepare for trouble

Chorus:
Team Rocket's rockin
Talkin' trouble, walkin' trouble
Double trouble, big trouble's gonna follow you

Team Rocket's rockin
Talkin' trouble, walkin' trouble
Double trouble, big trouble
Gonna capture Pikachu

Team Rocket's rockin
Talkin' trouble, walkin' trouble
Double trouble, big trouble's gonna follow you

Team Rocket's rockin
Talkin' trouble, walkin' trouble
Double trouble, big trouble
Gonna capture Pikachu

Team Rocket's rockin
Talkin' trouble, walkin' trouble
Double trouble, big trouble's gonna follow you

Team Rocket's Rockin!
Team Rocket: Looks like Team Rocket's blasting off again!

TV version

Jessie: To protect the world from devastation!
James: To unite all peoples within our nation!
Jessie: To denounce the evils of truth and love!
James: To extend our reach to the stars above!
Jessie: Jessie!
James: James!
Chorus & Jessie: Team Rocket, blast off at the speed of light!
Chorus & James: Surrender now, or prepare to fight!
Meowth: That's right!

Chorus:
Team Rocket's rockin,
Talkin' trouble, walkin' trouble,
Double trouble, big trouble's gonna follow you,

Team Rocket's rockin,
Talkin' trouble, walkin' trouble,
Double trouble, big trouble,
We're gonna capture Pikachu,

Team Rocket's rockin,
Talkin' trouble, walkin' trouble,
Double trouble, big trouble's gonna follow you,

Team Rocket's Rockin'!
Team Rocket: Looks like Team Rocket's blasting off again!

Pokémon Live! version

Jessie and James:
Prepare for trouble
Make it double
Prepare for trouble
Make it double

James: To protect the world from devastation!
Jessie: To unite all peoples within our nation!
James: To denounce the evils of truth and law!
Jessie: To extend our reach to the stars above!
Jessie: Jessie!
James: James!

Jessie and James:
Team Rocket blast off at the speed of light
Surrender now or prepare to fight!
Team Rocket's Rockin!
Talking trouble, walking trouble, double trouble
Big trouble's gonna follow you!

Team Rocket blast off at the speed of light
Surrender now or prepare to fight!
Team Rocket's Rockin!
Talking trouble, walking trouble, double trouble
Big trouble's gonna follow you!
We captured Pikachu!

Jessie: We're Team Rocket, and we fight for what's wrong.
James: For mayhem, for madness and for rare Pokémon
Jessie: I'm so gorgeous.
James: I'm always the man.
Delia: You're just the players in his "master plan".
Jessie and James: Jealous?

Team Rocket blast off at the speed of light
Surrender now or prepare to fight!
Team Rocket's Rockin!
Talking trouble, walking trouble, double trouble
Big trouble's gonna follow you!

Team Rocket blast off at the speed of light
Surrender now or prepare to fight!
Team Rocket's Rockin!
Talking trouble, walking trouble, double trouble
Big trouble's gonna follow you!
We captured Pikachu!

Team Rocket's rockin!

Reprise

Jessie: Hit it!
Jessie and James:
Team Rocket's Rockin!
Talking trouble, walking trouble double trouble
Big trouble's gonna follow you!

Team Rocket's Rockin!
Talking trouble, walking trouble, double trouble
Big trouble's gonna follow you!
We're gonna capture Ash-ey too!

DP092 version

Team Rocket's Rockin!
Talking trouble, walking trouble, double trouble
Big trouble's gonna follow you!

Team Rocket's Rockin!
Talking trouble, walking trouble, double trouble
Big trouble's gonna follow you!

Team Rocket's Rockin!
Talking trouble, walking trouble, double trouble
Big trouble's gonna follow you!

Team Rocket's Rockin!
Talking trouble, walking trouble, double trouble
Big trouble's gonna follow you!

Team Rocket's Rockin!
Talking trouble, walking trouble, double trouble
Big trouble's gonna follow you!

Team Rocket's Rockin!
Talking trouble...

Credits

• Lead vocals: Rachael Lillis (Jessie), Eric Stuart (James), Maddie Blaustein (Meowth), Ted Lewis (Giovanni)
• BG vocals: Curtis King, Sharon Bryant, Russell Velázquez, Louis Cortelezzi
• Guitars: Larry Saltzman, Bob Mayo
• Co-produced and arranged by Louis Cortelezzi

Trivia

• The video for the song originally premiered after an August 1999 rerun of Electric Shock Showdown, replacing the Pokérap. Instead of the Pikachu's Jukebox intro, it was introduced as a "Pokémon Music Video" using footage of the Kids' WB! backlot.
• This song was used as Team Rocket's theme in the Nintendo 64 game Pokémon Puzzle League.
• This song was used as background music for A Lean Mean Team Rocket Machine!.
• Giovanni tells Team Rocket at the beginning of the CD version that he wants Pikachu, but at this point in the anime, he does not know about Pikachu. Jessie, James, and Meowth decide themselves in Pokémon Emergency! that Pikachu is powerful and that they want to capture it. It is not until Enter Iris and Axew! that they actually talk to Giovanni about capturing Pikachu.
• Sheet music for this song is included in the Pokémon 2.B.A. Master piano book.
• When this song was released in Japan as part of the Pokémon de English! Kazu - Iro Hen VHS/DVD, it was presented not as a Pikachu's Jukebox video, but as a Pokémon Karaokémon video, complete with onscreen lyrics. However, the lyrics use a different font than the rest of the Karaokémon videos.

In other languages

Language		Title
Arabic		الرداء الأبيض The White Robe
Catalan	Catalonia	El poder del Team Rocket Team Rocket's Power
	Valencia	Molts Problemes Many Problems
Czech		Dvojnásobný potíže (Tým Raket) Double Trouble (Team Rocket)
Danish		Ballade I Din Gade Trouble In Your Street
French	Canada	Nous sommes de retour We're back
	Europe	Nous Sommes de Retour (La Team Rocket est Là) We're back (Team Rocket is here)
German		Gleich Gibt es Ärger (Das Team Rocket Kommt) Soon There'll be Trouble (Team Rocket Comes)
Greek		Κεφια Ναχεις Kefia Nacheis
Hebrew		צרות כפולות Tzarot Kfulot
Hungarian		Készülj a harcra Prepare for battle
Italian		Doppio Guaio (Team Rocket Porti) Double Trouble (Team Rocket Arrives)
Norwegian		Kjempe trøbbel Big Trouble
Polish		Zespół R. Team Rocket
Portuguese	Brazil	Muitos Problemas (Equipe Rocket) Many Problems (Team Rocket)
	Portugal	Problemas a Dobrar (Team Rocket) Problems Twofold (Team Rocket)
Russian		Команда R Komanda R
Spanish	Latin America	Equipo Rocket Double Problem (Team Rocket)
	Spain	Ante un Problema, Nuestro Lema (El Poder del Team Rocket) In Face of a Problem, Our Motto (Team Rocket's Power)
Turkish		Çifte Belaya (Roket Takımı) Double Trouble (Team Rocket)

Notes

Pokémon Live! Characters: Ash • Misty • Brock • Pikachu • Jessie • James • Meowth Giovanni • MechaMew2 • Delia • Professor Oak Songs: You & Me & Pokémon • It Will All Be Mine • My Best Friends • Everything Changes Misty's Song • The Best at Being the Worst • Pikachu (I Choose You) • What Kind of Pokémon Are You? The Time Has Come • Double Trouble • Two Perfect Girls • I've Got a Secret • You Just Can't Win • Finale

This article is part of Project Music, a Bulbapedia project that aims to write comprehensive articles on each Pokémon song, CD and musician.